Radical Group Seeking To Create Sharia State In U.S. Arrested In Michigan; Leader Killed

In Michigan yesterday, raids by law enforcement officers at a warehouse in Dearborn and a home in Detroit led to a series of arrests and the unsealing of a federal conspiracy complaint against 11 men who are alleged to be members of a radical fundamentalist Sunni Muslim group. Yesterday's Detroit Free Press reports that the leader of the group, 53 year old Luqman Ameen Abdullah, was killed by authorities in an exchange of gunfire after he refused to surrender during the warehouse raid. A news release issued jointly by the U.S. Attorney's Office and the FBI described the group, which calls itself Ummah ("the brotherhood"), as "a group of mostly African-American converts to Islam which seeks to establish a separate Sharia-law governed state within the United States." According to the affidavit of an FBI agent, some of the members of the group were converted to Islam while in prisons across the U.S. Here in two parts (1, 2 ) is the full text of the affidavit of the FBI agent that accompanied the complaint.